With "largely encouraging" Chinook and coho forecasts, the West Coast ocean salmon fishing council has adopted options for 2026 seasons off Washington, Oregon and the rest of the coast, and here's ...

The juvenile salmon population in Battle Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River flowing through Shasta and Tehama counties, will soon have a new area ...

Farmers and fishermen have teamed up in a groundbreaking effort to save salmon in the Sacramento River. The partnership involves more than 500,000 juvenile fall-run salmon in an imprinting project ...

Half a dozen years ago we were in a major multi year drought. The effect on our salmon fisheries was so severe that we closed salmon fishing statewide for two years and this year we only had a limited ...

In better times, droves of young winter-run Chinook salmon would travel 300 miles downstream from the Sacramento River, beneath the Golden Gate Bridge and into the Pacific. They would return as adults ...

More than 1,200 adult spring-run Chinook salmon meant to return to the San Joaquin River ended up in the Tuolumne River instead, prompting a five-part rescue operation. The fish were originally ...

Editor’s note: This is the first in an ongoing series by Sacramento Bee opinion writer Tom Philp examining the precipitous decline of California’s wild salmon and what can be done to head off ...

Drought and water contracts diverted river flows, killing 75% of 2021 salmon eggs Overestimated ocean counts led to 2022 harvests that removed 75% of stocks Infrastructure failures and pollution in ...